<p class="MsoNormal">I’m returning to the LaTeX world after a hiatus of about 5
years. LuaLaTeX looks intriguing, so I’ve decided to go down that path – but there
have been a few bumps in the road. I would appreciate any responses to the
following:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. LuaLaTeX is supposed to be able to use the regular fonts
on my Mac, but it chokes on some of them. I came across the following: "Note
however that Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> contains a bug with
its .ttc fonts, so none of these types of fonts can be loaded through LuaTeX. (E.g.,
system-distributed Cochin, Hoefler Text, Optima, etc.) This is a shame but there's nothing we
can do about it" (Will Robertson at
<a href="http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-May/025965.html">www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-May/025965.html</a>).
So I upgraded to 10.7 over the weekend, but no joy. (I also upgraded to texlive
2011.) There was also a post by Khaled Hosny (~Sept 2011) saying that the .ttc
files were being removed from the blacklist file. To anyone’s knowledge has the
handling of .ttc fonts been corrected in 10.7?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. Is it possible in LuaLaTeX to specify specific font
sizes? I couldn’t see how to do this in the documentation.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3. Because my current project is an annotated/critical
edition of a 17<sup>th</sup> century Puritan writer, I’m interested in using
ednotes. Has anyone used this with LuaLaTeX?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">4. A very specialized question with respect to ednotes (or
the underlying lineno package): I know that it is easy to get line numbering on
every line or every kth line, but what I would like is for line numbers to show
up in the margin only when there is something on that line for which I would
like to provide a note. The line number would then both indicate the line
number and would also provide an unobtrusive indication – more subtle than a
footnote marker – that there is some textual comment with respect to this line.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Paul Dulaney</p>